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Candice wrote: >But mainstream culture is always wanker culture, isn't it? Mainstream is so fiercely contested a word - either for or against - and except in very specific examples (now to be picky after being way too generalised) I'm not really sure what it means. Usually it's shorthand for "them" and "us", "us" being the ill-used ones - I'm as guilty as anyone of this. Maybe what I react badly to is what Brecht used to call "bourgeois culture", ie art which just seeks to pacify its audience with comfortable recognitions. But that can happen just as easily in the margins. Best Alison